China - Fourth Inland Waterways Project : resettlement action plan (Vol. 1 of 8) : Resettlement action plan

RP174 V. July 2003 Guangxi Youjiang Navigation Project Naji Navigation Complex Resettlement Action Plan Guangxi Xijiang Navigation & Development Co. LTD. East China Investigation & Design Institute July 2003  RESE77LEMENT ACTION PLAN Naji Navigation Complex Project Resettlement Action Plan List of Contents OBJECTIVES OF THE RAP AND THE DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY ... 1 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION ...................................................................... 3 1.1. BACKGROUND OF PROJECT .3 1.2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION .3 1.3. SERVICE SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT. 6 1.4. PROJECT SCHEDULE .7 1.5. MEASURES FOR MINIMIZING PROJECT IMPACT. 7 1.6. PROJECT DESIGN AND APPROVAL .9 1.7. PREPARATION OF RESETTLEMENT PLAN .9 1.8. PREPARATION OF RESETTLEMENTACTION PLAN .10 1.9. BASES AND TARGET OF PREPARATION OF RAP 10 2. NATURAL,SOCIALAND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN PROJECTAFFECTAREA .. 12 2.1. GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF RESERVOIR AREA .12 2.2. BASIC SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN PROJECT AFFECTED AREA .13 2.3. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF PROJECT AFFECTED TOWN(SHIP)S AND VILLAGES 16 2.4. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF FARMERS IN RESERVOIR AREA .21 2.5. WOMAN STATUS AT PROJECT AFFECTED AREA ................................ 22 2.6. BASIC ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF PROJECT AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS .23 3. PROJECT IMPACT ....................................................... 31 3.1. DEFINITION OF SCOPE OF LAND REQUISITION AND HOUSE RELOCATION ............................... 31 3.2. SURVEY OF INDEXES IN KIND ............................... 34 3.3. INDEXES IN KIND AFFECTED BY PROJECT ....................................................... 35 3.4. ANALYSIS ON PROJECT IMPACT ........................... ; 52 4. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ............................ 57 4.1. POLICIES ........................... 57 4.2. LAWS ...................... 57 4.3. COMPENSATION CRITERIA ...................... 66 4.4. ENTITLEMENT MATRIX ...................... 76 5. RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION PLANNING . ................................... 81 5.1. TARGETS AND TASKS ............................................ 81 5.2. POLICY AND PRINCIPLE OF RESETTLEMENT PLANNING ............................................ 83 5.3. OVERALL SCHEME OF RESETTLEMENT ............................................ 84 5.4. RESETTLEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CAPACITY ANALYSIS .84  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN 5.5. RESETTLEMENT PLANNING OF RURAL RESETTLERS ........................................ 87 5.6. URBAN RESETTLEMENT PLANNING ......................................... 112 5.7. RELOCATION PLAN OF SPECIAL ITEMS ......................................... 113 5.8. RESERVOIR BOTTOM CLEANING PLAN ........................................ 116 5.9. ENGINEERING MEASURES FOR ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ......................................... 117 6. COMPENSATION ESTIMATION OF LAND REQUISmON AND RESETrLEMENT .122 6.1. BASIS OF COST ESTIMATION PREPARATION ....................................;. 123 6.2. PRINCIPLE OF COMPENSATION .124 6.3. COMPENSATION ESTIMATION .124 7. IMPLEMENTATION RESETTLEMENT PLAN . .149 7.1. IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES .149 7.2. PROGRESS SCHEDULE ............................................... 151 7.3. FUND FLOWAND FUNDALLOCATION SCHEDULE .152 8. INSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION .155 8.1. ESTABLISHING OF ORGANIZATIONS ......................................... 155 8.2. RESPONSIBILITIES ......................................... 155 8.3. STAFFING ......................................... 158 8.4. WORKING RELATION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS ......................................... 160 8.5. MEASURES FOR ENHANCING CAPACITY OF ORGANIZATIONS ......................................... 161 9. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION .162 9.1. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ............................................... ; 162 9.2. RESPONDING TO GRIEVANCE AND APPEAL .167 10. MONITORING AND REPORTING .168 10.1. INTERNALMONITORING .168 10.2. EXTERNAL INDEPENDENT MONITORING AND EVALUATION .169 11. REPORT COMPILING PLAN .172 11.1. 1 RESETTLEMENT REPORT .172 11.2. PROGRESS REPORT ................................................ 172 11.3. REPORTING ........... 173 ATTACHMENT 1: LIST OF VILLAGES IMPACTED-BY PROJECT .175 ATTACHMENT 2: VISITING RECORDS .176 ATTACHMENT 3: SUMMARY OF AGRICULTURAL POPULATION TO BE RESETTLED (BASIC SITUATION OF VILLAGE GROUP) .186  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN Objectives of the RAP and the Definition of Resettlement Terminology This Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) is prepared according to the Laws and Regulations of PRC, and local area as well as the Guidelines of the World Bank (Operational Directive for Involuntary Resettlement OP4.12). The purpose of this document is to set out an Action plan for the Resettlement and Rehabilitation of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs) to ensure that they will benefit from the project and their standards of living will improve or at least be restored after the project impact. A definition of PAPs is given below: Definition of the PAPs: "Affected Persons" means persons who on account for of the execution of the project had or would have their: a) standard of living adversely affected; or b) right, title or interest in any house, land (including premises, agricultural and grazing land) or any other fixed or movable asset acquired or possessed, temporarily or permanently; or c) business, occupation. work or place of residence or habitat adversely affected, and "affected Person" means individually all those who qualify as "Affected persons." PAPs may be individuals or legal persons such as a company, a public institution. including the followings: a) persons who have a title, right, interest, in structures (houses, enterprises, shelters, or public buildings), land (including residential, agricultural, and grazing land)or any other asset acquired or possessed, in full or in part, permanently or temporarily; b) persons who use the structures, land or assets described above; or persons whose business, occupation, work, place of residence or habitat adversely affected; or c) persons whose standard of living is adversely affected as a consequence of land acquisition. Definition of PAPs is not limited to their legal status, living stytle or business in the affected location, or their title to property Thus, it also includes: a) all those affected by the project regardless of their legal rights or absence thereof to the assets being taken; and b) persons without residential permit to live in a certain area. Therefore all such persons who are affected will need to considered and recorded as PAPs, regardless of their legal property, land or social position. If there are more than one person, family or household using or holding a title to the same land or property that is acquired, they will be compensated and rehabilitated according to the loss they suffer, their rights, and the impact on their living standards. The definition of PAPs is linked directly to the adverse effect of the project, regardless of legal rights title or interest. All PAPs'are entitled to the improvement or at least restoration of their standards of living, and compensation for the material losses they suffer. Compensation for assets will cover replacement cost. No deductions or discounts will be applied to the compensation amount for depreciation or other reasons. All PAPs deriving an economic benefit from the affected land and property are entitled to receive rehabilitation benefits in addition to the compensation for their assets lost. Those PAPs without title, authorization or legal permission to reside, conduct business, cultivate land or construct structures are eligible for rehabilitation of their livelihoods and compensation for their assets on an equal footing with those with formial legal title, authorization or permissions to the assets.  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN The term RESETTLEMENT includes: a) relocate living quarters; b) finding acceptable new employment for those whose jobs are affected; c) restoration (or compensation) of affected productive resources such as land, workplaces, trees and infrastructure; d) restoration of other adverse effect on PAPs' living standards (quality of life) through land acquisition (such as the adverse effects of pollution); e) restoration of or compensation for affected private and public enterprises; f) restoration of adversely affected on cultural or common property. Rehabilitation means: the restoration of the PAPs' resource capacity to continue with productive activities or lifestyles at a level higher or at least equal to that before the project. The objective of this RAP,is to provide a plan for the resettlement and rehabilitation of the PAPs so that their losses will be compensated and their living level will be improved or at least restored to the pre-project levels. To achieve these objectives the plan provides for rehabilitation measures so that the income earning potential of individuals are restored to sustain their livelihoods. Affected productive resources of businesses (enterprises including shops) and public property. Infrastructure and cultural property will also be improved or at least restored to their pre-project levels. 2   RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION 1.1. Background of Project The Youjiang River is the northem source of the Yujiang River of Xijiang Water System in Zhujiang River Basin. It is the upstream reach (totally 727km long) of the planned waterway to the sea in China's southwestem region, and is one of key inland navigation waterways, starting from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces and heading to Zhujiang Delta and Honking and Macao regions. The upstream area, covering Baise prefecture in Guangxi Region and its adjacent southeastem Yunnan and southwestern Guizhou, is one of the China's regions concentrated with poverty population, but is rich of natural resources 'such as coal, petroleum, mineral reserves and water potentials, particularly with coal reserve as much as 12 billion tons. However, the economy in this area is less developed as the area has not been easily accessible for long time. The poor inland navigation facilities of the waterways in the area can hardly exert driving effect on the economic development in the hinterland of the China's southwest region, thus, restricting the development of the resources and economic development in the region. The navigation way of Youjiang River from Baise (via Nanning) to Guangzhou is 1212km, and is planned as a navigation waterway for thousand-tonnage ships. Along with the completion of the Xijin, Guigang and Guiping navigation complexes the navigation way from Nanning to Guangzhou has already been upgraded to the criteria for navigation of thousand-tonnage ships. The upstream reach from Baise to Nanning, 845km long, is the navigation truck, but is only classified as Grade 6 navigation way only serving for 100-tonnage ships. Therefore, the river reach from Baise to Nanning becomes the "bottleneck" in waterway transportation linking southeastem Yunnan, southwestem Guizhou and western Guangxi with the Zhujiang Delta, and hinders the development of natural resources and economic development in the southwestern China. The Naji Navigation Complex is the fourth cascade in the Comprehensive Utilization Plan of Yujiang River. Construction of this complex will completely improve the navigation condition from Baise to Naji. After successive completion of the navigation facilities at the downstream Yuliang, Jinji and Laokou as well as canalization of the whole Youjiang River, the navigation capability of the Youjiang River from Baise to Nanning can be upgraded for 2 x 1000 tonnage push-towing fleets. In addition, the Naji Navigation Complex can also serve as a key regulation works for the on-going Baise Water Conservancy Project, and the additional power yield from Naji Navigation Complex can relieve the shortage of power supply in the Baise Power System. In general, it is necessary and urgent to construct the Naji Navigation Complex and harness the Youjiang River channel in meeting the needs of tapping the natural resources and economic development in the southwestem China. The construction of this project will exert an important role in full use of river water resource, transfixion of sea-oriented waterway ip the region, promotion of economic development of the Youjiang river basin, improvement of people's living conditions and bringing the yearly regulation capacity of the Baise Complex into full play. 1.2. Project Description The Naji Navigation Complex Project is composed of two sub-projects, i.e., (A) Naji Navigation Complex and (B) Navigation Channel Harnessing, which are described respectively as follows. A. Naji Navigation Complex The dam site of the Naji Navigation Complex is located on the Youjiang river upstream 3  RESETLEMENT ACTION PLAN the Yujiang River by the side of Naji natural village of Napo Town in Tianyang County, 22.5km from the Tlianyang county seat. It is the fourth cascade in the Plan of Comprehensive Utilization of Yujiang River. This complex is a multi-purpose development mainly for navigation and power generation and concurrently for other benefits. The Naji Navigation Complex is composed mainly of dam, shiplock, powerhouse of the hydropower plant, step-up switchyard, power interconnection and auxiliary facilities. The dam with its crest at E1.121m (above the Yellow sea datum, same below) and its max. height of 22m, forms a reservoir with its normal water storage level at El.11 5.0m, corresponding water storage of 102.9 million m3 and corresponding water surface of 17.27 km2. The power plant is of run-of-river type, accommodates three sets of 19 MW bulb-type generating units, with a total installed capacity of 57 MW. The yearly power yield of the power plant is 248 million kWh. After completion of the Naji Navigation Complex, a total of 56km length of upstream river reach can be canalized for navigation. The storage capacity of the complex can ensure sufficient water depth for 500-tonnage cargoes (fleets) navigating on the river section from Naji to Baise all the year round. The salient technical indexes of the complex are shown in Table 1-1. Salient Features of Naji Navigation Complex Table 1-1 Sort No. Items Unit Quantity Remark 1 Catchment area km2 23573 Hydro 2 Perennial average runoff m3/s 327 Baise after regulating logy 3 Design peak flood discharge m3/s 3750 P=2% 4 Checked peak flood discharge m3/s 11000 P=0.2% 5 Design flood water level (u/s I d/s) m 110.75/110.10 P=2% 6 Checked flood discharge (u/sI d/s) m 118.53/117.68 P=0.2% 7 Normal water level/dead water level m 115.00/114.40 Reser 8 Reservoir surface at normal water 3 vRoeirSer 8 level ~ ~ ~ 101.47 Q=140m /s voir level 9 Max. navigation water level (u/s / d/s) m 115.00/109.71 Updam line 10 Min. navigation water level (u/s / d/s) m 109.40/100.87 lowerdam line Total reservoir storage/ regulating Million M3 103/9 Daily regulating capacity 12 Designed yearly navigation capability Ten 390/317 Single way of shiplock thousand 39/1tinl a 13 Canalized navigation way Km 56 Proje 14 Installed capacity MW 57 3X 19 magni 15 Dependability (P=85%) MW 16.14 With Baise reservoir in tude normal operation 16 Perennial average power yield Million kW h 250.6 Baeseirqn 17 Yearly utilization hours H 4397 Subm 18 Submerged land Mu 11867.76 erge 19 PAPs Person 244 49 households loss - 2 index 20 Relocated houses m 16532.11 Including simple shed es 22 Permanent land occupation Mu 568.01 Hinge area 4  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN Salient Features of Naji Navigation Complex Table 1-1 (to be continued) Son No. Items Unit Quantity Remark .____ (I) Shiplock ._. .23 Shiplock design criteria t 2Xi000 Neartlre2X500 24 Shipiock dimension (LX W water m 190 x 12 x 3.5 Effective yardstick ___depth)m 25 Sill top elevation (u/s td/s) m 105.90/97.37 ____ (II) Sluice-gated dam 26 Dam type WES low weir Gravity dam 27 Weir crest el. / dam crest el. m 104.00 28 Max. dam height M . 121.50 Main 29 Height of largest dam. M 27.5 sutreusct 30 No. of gates No. 10 31 Dam length M 196.00 32 Gate dimension (W X H) M 16X 11 Radial gate (111) Hydropower plant 33 Type Run-of-river Dimension of main power- house (Lx 2 34 ,m 4.41X92 WXH) 35 Area of installation m2 27.5 x 15 36 Space between aircrew M 14-15.62 37 (IV) length of water blocking front line M 368.64 .___ (1 ). Turbine 38 No. of turbine Set 3 Main 39 Diameter of wheel M 4.9 gener - ating 40 Rated capacity m3/s 203.5 equip - (2). Generator m e n t I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 41 Type: Bulb-type Set 3 42 Rated capacity MW 19 43 Earth/rock excavation m3 2917700 eMnge 44 Earth/rockfill m3 1113100 ering 45 Mortar (dry) masonry m3 114000 quanit 46 Concrete placement m3 450000 47 Total construction period Year 4 48 months Econ 48 Static investment Yuan 1107206000 omic - index 49 Dynamic investment Yuan 1159860200 B. Navigation Channel Harnessing Navigation Channel Harnessing Sub-project includes two parts, i.e., (a) navigation channel in reservoir area and (b) navigation channel from Naji to Nanning. (a) Navigation channel harnessing works in reservoir The scope of the navigation channel harnessing works and navigation marks design is in a 55.2km range from the Naji dam site to the designed Sta. K371+514 at downstream 5  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN approaching channel of the shiplock of the Baise Water Conservancy Complex. The designed Sta. K371+514 is 0.8km downstream the outlet of the Baise shiplock. Within a 14km long navigation channel from the deep pool at end of Donglang river shoal to Luobuzhou, there are nine dangerous river shoals to be treated. The principle of navigation channel harnessing is to take the advantage of regulation effect of the Naji reservoir and dredging to control the river condition (river channel and river flow). This can ensure a stable flow to dredge up the navigation channel and prevent formation of unfavorable navigation channel, thus, satisfying the requirement of navigation. This navigation route, generally running along the natural river channel, follows the main flow route or deep depression route. The basic harnessing measures to be adopted include removal of reefs by blasting and dredging (as main measures) and enlarging the radius of river bents, increasing water depth, lowering flow velocity, improving flow regime, guaranteeing the navigation space, and using auxiliary navigation facilities such as navigation marks. As the navigation way upstream Bailin Bridge is of limited navigation way with its rock channel bottom, this section of the navigation channel will be harnessed as double-way traffic channel with dimension of 2.Om x 40m X 260m (depth X width X radius of bent). The navigation way downstream of Bailin Bridge will be of canalized one in the reservoir area, the navigation space will be 2.1mX50mX330m. The preliminary estimation shows that the engineering quantity of reef blasting is 39318m3 and dredging 190820m3. The total engineering quantity is 230138m3, and the total investment of the project is about 20531300 Yuan. (b) Navigation Channel Hamessing Works from Naji to Nanning The navigation channel from Naji to Nanning is about 316km. The water level for navigation channel harnessing 0.9m higher than the design water level will be adopted, and the harnessing width is tentatively 60-80m. With the prerequisite of satisfying the min. bend radius of the navigation channel, the navigation route at wide river sections will be arranged along the main river flow route (or deep depression line) pertaining to mean-flow and dry season. At zigzagged river sections, the navigation channel will be arranged on the concaved side and kept away from the protruding shoals, where possible. At the shallow transition sections, the navigation route will be smoothly connected between the upstream and downstream deep pools, where possible, to smoothen and stabilize the routes. According to the actual condition of the river shoals in the Youjiang River, the hamessing of the navigation channel will adopt groins, training dikes, closed dikes, submerged dams and revetments. In addition, removal of reefs, dredging, regulating the river shoals and converging flow into main channel will be adopted to stabilize the river channel and river flow for satisfying navigation requirement. At present, the planned navigation bottom is mainly be covered by sand and gravel and locally with silty mud, which will be dredged with bucket dredgers. The site reconnaissance along the river conducted by the design organization shows that the dangerous shoals and reefs to be harnessed are generally a good distance off the inhabitant concentrated areas, and no schools, hospitals nor large villages, enterprises within 500m ranges. The harnessing works can be conducted in the original river channel, and no inhabitant resettlement and land requisition is needed. Therefore, the preparation of the Resettlement Action Plan of the Naji Navigation Complex Project focuses on the Naji Navigation Complex Sub-Project. 1.3. Service Scope and Significance of Project After completion of the Naji Navigation Complex Project, and by ganged operation of the complex with Baise Water Conservancy Project, the navigation on the Youjiang River can be upgraded from Grade VI to Grade IV, and serve for navigation of 500-tonnage vessel fleets (originally 120-tonnage vessels). The existing poor navigation way in Baise area will be 6  RESE7TLEMENT ACTION PLAN fundamentally improved. The backwater of the Naji reservoir will link up the approach channel exit downstream the shiplock of Baise Water Conservancy Complex, forming the inter-province waterway within Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi. The navigation way will link up the Baise-Panxian highway (of Grade 2), which will realize the joint transportation of waterway and highway and thus, gear up the tapping process of natural resources and economic development in the hinterlands (Baise prefecture, southwestern Guizhou and southeastern Yunnan). Meanwhile, as a regulating works of the Baise Water Conservancy Complex, the Naji Navigation Complex will guarantee the peak-serving function of the Baise complex in the local power system and exert an non-substitutive effect in relieving the power shortage in the power system 1.4. Project Schedule According to the general project schedule, the construction of the main project structures will start in October 2004, the reservoir impoundment will start in January 2007, the first generating unit operates in February 2007 and the project will be completed in March 2008. The total construction period of the project is 4 years. Based on the general project schedule, the preparatory work for resettlement has been completed and preparation of the Resettlement Action -Plan (RAP) is underway according to the World Bank Guidelines. The implementation of resettlement work will be started in the first half of 2003, including successive formality procedures of land requisition and housing relocation and displacement of inhabitants. The implementation plan of land requisition and inhabitant resettlement are detailed in Chapter 7 herein after. 1.5. Measures for Minimizing Project Impact 1.5.1. Planning and design stages During project planning and design stages, the design organization and the project owner have adopted a series of effective measures to reduce the impact of the project on the local social and economic status. A. In the planning stage, the resettlement schemes were optimized and selected with due consideration in social and economic impact of the project, and such impact was taken as the key factors in selective comparison of the schemes. B. Efforts were made to locate the dam site away from occupation of the well- irrigated plowland and house removal. The dam height and various reservoir water levels were rationally selected to minimize the negative impact of the project to a possible extent. The project structures (such as shiplock, switchyard, living quarters, etc.) were arranged away from the plowland and dwelling places so as to reduce occupation of plowland and house removal. C. Efforts were made to adopt engineering measures for reducing the reservoir inundation losses. Engineering measures will be adopted to protect the unstable reservoir bank sections, by conventional protection or building retaining walls; in addition, for some reservoir temporary inundated areas, measures of raising-up or filling will be adopted to reduce cultivated loss in maximum, according to premilinary estimation of project design unit, this measure for Weidong and Nayin project will protect cultivated land 242mu or so, and about 540mu for Fulu River banks, about 792mu for reservoir area. .D. The construction design was optimized to shorten the construction period and the time period of house removal and resettlement were rationally arranged with due consideration of construction progress so as to reduce the property loss of the resettlers to a minimum. For example, the house removal and rebuilding are generally arranged in the slack seasons and use of the requisitioned land after the crops are harvested. 7  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN 1.5.2. Construction stage A. Strengthening public participation mechanism Before project construction, the public notice was issued in the project affected areas and the new resettlement areas clearly informr the planned project schedules, the compensation policies of land requisition, inhabitant resettlement and house removal so as to receive the public supervision. In the construction period, the local construction materials will be first considered, and the local transportation means and local labors will be first adopted so far as they can meet the technical requirement. The purpose is to make the PAPs benefit from the project. B. Measures to reduce floating dusts To maintain a clean environment in the construction site and reduce the construction impact to the surroundings, the construction roads at the inhabitant concentrated places will be water sprayed in case of continuous windy fine days to prevent floating dusts. The contractors will be requested to timely treated the earth/rock transportation roads, overloading of vehicles is not allowed and measures should be adopted to prevent spilling out, so as to keep a neat construction environment. C. Strengthening epidemic disease prevention and control During construction, large number of population will move onto the project area to provide various services. To maintain the public security and the health of the people in the area and prevent propagation and contagion, the project owner will request the local governments to strengthen the public security patrol and request the contractors to clean up the living wastes at the construction sites according to the requirement of the local environmental sanitation authorities. The people from outside will be registered for quarantine and receive bacterin. Monitoring will be strengthened on epidemic diseases, and various epidemic diseases and diseases of natural epidemic focus will be regularly recorded and analyzed. New disease will be treated whenever found. Generally, statistics of diseases will be made once each season, and the reporting system of epidemic situation will be established, and the epidemic case should be reported in shortest time and corresponding measures should be adopted to control the contagion. 1.5.3. Resettlement implementation stage In case that the land requisition and house removal are unavoidable, the following measures should be adopted to reduce the project impact to the local situation. A. Basic data collection should be strengthened, and in-depth analysis on local social and economic status and development trends. The implementation plan that is practical to the local situation should be formulated to ensure that the living standard of the PAPs not be lowered by the construction of the project. B. Measures will be adopted to minimize the project impact. For example, in planning the resettlement, efforts will be made to use the natural bays in the reservoir for aquiculture, and to improve the land utilization condition and increase land sources in combination of the reservoir bank protection. C. The internal and external monitoring should be strengthened and the efficient information feedback system and channels should be established to shorten the information processing cycle to a possible extent. It focuses on the timely solving the problems rising in the implementation of the resettlement. 8  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN 1.6. Project Design and Approval The Naji Navigation Complex project is co-designed by the Communication Planning, Investigation and Design Institute and Water Conservancy and Hydropower Investigation and Design Institute of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. During design of the project, the designers have made technical and economic studies by comparison of several selective dam sites with various selective normal reservoir storage levels. For the proposed selective project schemes, the designers determined the final scheme based on the economic justification involving, among others, various aspects such as the project impact to the local economy, land requisition and inhabitant resettlement, environmental impact assessment, geological structure, hydro-geology, topography and geomorphology, transportation of heavy equipment, and construction conditions, etc. The project owner will soon arrange the preliminary design approval and construction design. The environmental impact assessment of the project was carried out by the Environmental Protection Science Institute of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The institute raised some key environment-sensitive problems possibly induced by the construction (during and after construction) as well as the countermeasures. This environment impact report is authorized by State Environment Protection General Bureau and has gone through the checkup organized by Guangxi Environment Protection Bureau. 1.7. Preparation of Resettlement Plan A. Survey of Project Impact According to the scope of inhabitant resettlement'and land requisition, the project owner, Guangxi Xijiang Navigation Development Co. Ltd. entrusted the No.1 Survey and Mapping Institute of Guangxi Survey and Mapping Bureau to organize a survey team to carry out the overall survey for the project. The survey was performed from the end of December 2002 to the end of February 2003 on the index in kind, including buildings and their appendages, land, special items and scattered trees in the project affected areas. Later, with the technical guidance of East China Investigation and Design Institute and based on the land requisition and resettlement scope provided by the design institutes, the project owner and the local governments organized teams to perform investigation into various kinds of population, enterprises and special items one by one, which lasted for some 40 days. The survey teams were actively supported and assisted by the local governments, village committees and the PAPs. According to the type of the affected objectives, the project impact survey were categorized into land requisition, house and appendage relocation, scattered fruit tree felling, enterprses .relocation, special items relocation and PAPs to be resettled due to house relocation and land requisition. From April to June, 2003, Guangxi Mapping Institute checked all types of land, PAPs and houses involved by inundation, and publicized the outputs at the showy positions in the villager groups. All the survey outputs were confirmed by the PAPs or'the concerned organizations. B. Social and Economic Survey For analysis on the project impact and formulation of feasible RAP, the competent departments of concerned counties'and the Region organized, with the uniform arrangement by the project owner, the detail social and economic survey in the town(ship)s, villages, village groups and resettlers in the project affected area and resettlement host areas. The survey is performed by collecting existing statistic data and site sample surveying, and can be divided in two aspects. (1) Basic conditions, social and economic status quo and development plan: Collecting from the planning, statistics and price management departments of the local governments data and information, documents and yearly statistic reports about GNP, national income, output value of industry and agriculture, financial revenue, income level of local people, price 9  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN information of agricultural products and sideline products, agricultural cultivation structures, area of plantation, output per mu and plowland holding condition. All the information collected was analyzed and sorted into various economic indexes which can macroscopically reflect the local economic and social conditions. (2) Existing living and production conditions of the inhabitants in the area: The living and production indexes of the inhabitants in the land requisition and resettlement areas are established and sample survey of the affected objects are conducted. The data collection and sample survey were performed simultaneously with the survey of indexes in kind. According to the data actually surveyed, the actual living and production conditions of the local inhabitants and the existing social and economic conditions were analyzed. C. Resettlement Plan The resettlement of the project is to be carried out on the developable basic, that is, the resettlement host area is provided with basic materials for people's living and at the same time has the potential for long-term development. The resettlement will be incorporated into the regional economic development so that the resettlers are able to gradually become well off and their life will be equal to or better than before resettlement. The resettlement planning is under the leadership of the local county (prefecture) governments. The detail survey was first made into the residual land sources on the village group base and the remaining resettlement capacity was determined. Then, after collecting the villagers' opinions and based on the actual conditions of each town(ship) and village, the resettlement method and scheme were drafted and discussed by the village management. Based on the method and scheme, each village worked out their own "Preliminary Resettlement and Land Requisition Plan of XX Village Affected by Naji Navigation Complex Project". Generally the resettlement is on the base of farmland. As the project construction will not much influence the local economy, the resettlement is basically by re-allocating part of farmland within the village and village group or reclaim the wasteland or adjusting the plantation structures, so that the resettlers living and production condition can be restored or better than before resettlement. Meanwhile, in order to strengthen the leadership and coordination of the resettlement work, the concemed cities, counties (prefectures) established Project Resettlement Leading Groups successively. 1.8. Preparation of Resettlement Action Plan The preparatory work for resettlement action planning was organized by the project owner and participated by the concerned design institutes, resettlement consulting organization and local governments at different levels. East China Investigation and Design Institute provided the technical guidance, the design institute set the boundaries of resettlement areas and the local government was responsible for formulation of the resettlement schemes for the territory under their jurisdiction. Since July 2002, the resettlement organizations at different levels were successively established, the project affected areas were defined, the work outlines of RAP was prepared, and the work of survey of indexes in kind, social and economic survey, policy formulation, resettlement schemes and compensation estimation was completed. Now, the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) of the project and the preparation of resettlement monitoring and evaluation have been completed. 1.9. Bases and Target of Preparation of RAP A. Policy Frame (1) Land Law of the People's Republic of China 10  RESE77LEMENT ACTION PLAN (2) Interim Regulation of the People's Republic of China on Taxation on Land Occupation (3) Measures of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for Implementation of Land Law of the People's Republic of China (4) Measures of Forest Land Management of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (5) Regulations on River Channel Management of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (6) Several Regulations on Determination of Ownership of Land and Use Right of Land issued by the State Land Administration (7) No. [2000] 39 circulation document of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Notice on Interim Measures for Land Requisition and House Relocation for Key Infrastructure Projects in The Region prepared by the regional planning department and other governmental departments (8) Non-Voluntary Resettlement, Operational Policy OP 4.12 of the World Bank B. Target of Policy (1) Adopt engineering, technical and economic measures to avoid or minimize the land requisition and house relocation to a possible extent. When the land requisition and house relocation are unavoidable, efforts should be made to adopt effective measures to reduce the impact on the local living and production conditions. (2) In project preparation stage, the social and economic survey should be conducted and corresponding resettlement plan prepared. (3) The resettlement should be based on the surveyed indexes in kind and the compensation criteria, and should aim at upgrading or at least restoring the original living and production level of the resettlers. (4) Initiate the developable resettlement. The rural resettlement should be on the basis of land and creates job opportunities in the local secondary and tertiary industries. (5) Encourage the resettlers and the inhabitants in host areas to participate in planning the resettlement. (6) The PAPs should be resettled in their original communities, as a first priority. (7) The resettlers and inhabitants originally living in the host areas should be benefited from the project.  RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN 2. NATURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDlTIONS IN PROJECT AFFECT AREA 2.1. Geographical Features of Reservoir Area (1) Topography and geomorphology The reservoir is located in the Tianyang-Baise mountainous basin with low hills, where the topography is tilting from the west to the east. The both banks of the Youjiang River are developed with first and secondary terraces formed by erosion of the river. The terraces are generally 200-500m wide with the max. of 2-3km. The topographically flat terraces are for farming and there are rather densely distributed dwelling quarters. The reservoir is at the southwest edge of the basin. The river channel at the reservoir area is usually 200-300m wide with the max. of 500m. The left bank is topographically less undulant, with low hills, and the right bank is considerable undulant but rather wide and developed with gulches and streams. The surface of the first rank terrace is at El. 120-127m at the Baise Depression, at El. 117-124m at Sitang Upward Section and El. 116-118m at Yanyang Depression. The relative elevation difference between the first rank and second rank terraces is 7m. (2) Geology in reservoir area The reservoir is located in the Baise -Tianyang Mountainous Basins between the "Guangxi Ld -shaped" and "Yunnan Lb -shaped" geo-structures. The two basins are of fault-depressed ones. The main geo-structure is mainly formed by the Youjiang fault zone, which is an active fault striking in NW direction and is only 78km from the dam site. The existing data shows that this fault only extends down to the stratum of Upper-Paleozoic era, with the incision depth within 10-15m. The fault is of high-angle thrust tensioned first and torsion second, generally striking NW310